Woman cheated of Rs 16.5 lakh in cyber fraud: Threatened with arrest in fake CBI case | Pune News

Pune: Cybercriminals threatened a 30-year-old employee of a private company with arrest in connection with a hoax money laundering case and cheated her of Rs16.5 lakh between October 25 and 26.
The woman stated in her complaint to Sant Tukaramnagar police on Thursday that she received a call from an unknown person on October 25.
The caller posed as a director of a courier company in Mumbai and told her that a parcel containing six debit cards, five identity cards and some clothes had been received from Chennai in her name.
“The caller told the woman that the CBI had opened an investigation against her because they found something suspicious. The director also linked her to a so-called ‘CBI officer’,” said an officer of Sant Tukaramnagar police.
He said the fake CBI officer told the woman to download a telecommunication app for a video call. “The caller told her that the CBI had arrested a businessman in connection with money laundering. He also told the woman that the ‘CBI’ had found that she had transferred Rs5 lakh to that particular businessman,” he said.
The caller threatened the woman that she would be arrested if she disconnected the video call, he said. “The woman was told that the CBI had to investigate the monetary transactions. He first told her to transfer Rs 9.1 lakh to a bank account and then told her to transfer Rs 7.4 lakh more. After taking Rs 16.5 lakh from the woman, he disconnected the call,” the officer said.